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According to Politico, Congress is expected to vote this week on ending the 'strip-club loophole' in the federal government's welfare programs.

You might ask, how does the Federal government subsidize strip clubs? Easy.

Welfare is distributed to citizens via electronic benefits transfer cards. These act like debit cards and work at ATMs in strip clubs, 'adult entertainment' stories, casinos and liquor shops.

The issue only came up after 2010 reports by the Los Angeles Times showed that some of California's state welfare recipients were withdrawing a lot of their benefits at casinos, or other adult entertainment shops.

Data posted on a state Website showed that $3.9 million was accessed at casinos over a three-year and five-month period, and beneficiaries tapped into a total of $20,000 at adult entertainment establishments.

The total amount was a small but significant percentage: 40 cents of every one hundred dollars of welfare was withdrawn at casinos in California.

The federal government has not studied the amount of benefits that are being withdrawn at these institutions. And by passing this 'fix' on Thursday, it hopes never to do so.